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Information Designer's Sample
Reader's Comment Form (that generates more feedback than complaints)

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Following is a sample of a Comment Form you can use to elicit substantive feedback about your communication product--more substantive than "what errors did you find."

You can adapt this form to solicit feedback on online communication products.

We Welcome Your Comments
  1. In a word, how would you describe this guide? _________________________________________
  2. How do you use this guide?
  3. Choose one:

    • I read it from beginning to end.
    • I only read the sections that pertain to my immediate needs.
    • I only read the sections that pertain to my job.
  4. When you need to find information in this guide, where is the first place you usually look:
  5. Choose one:

    • Table of contents
    • Index
    • through pages until I find what I'm looking for
  6. How easily can you find information in this guide:
  7. 1 2 3 4 5
    Not easily Very easily
  8. How clear is the information in this guide?
  9. 1 2 3 4 5
    Totally unclear Extremely clear
  10. When you actually try the instructions described in this guide, how easily can you follow them?
  11. 1 2 3 4 5
    Not at all Like a breeze
  12. How well did you understand the product before reading this guide:
  13. 1 2 3 4 5
    Not at all Practically an expert
  14. After
  15. 1 2 3 4 5
    Not at all Practically an expert
  16. The best aspect of this guide is: _________________________________________________
  17. If we were to change one aspect of this user’s guide, it would be: ______________________

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